Thur-Sat, June 14-16, 8-9pm, all days
Alien is an international collaboration between choreographers Tim Rubel of Tim Rubel Human Shakes (San Francisco) and Elisabeth Kindler-Abali of animi motus e.v. (Berlin), and will feature the TRHS dancers.
Alien will investigate what it means to be an outsider, a visitor, a newcomer to an environment that fears and questions your presence. The piece depicts members of a fictional human race who have come to a new land seeking refuge from their homeland which is in turmoil. Upon their arrival, they discover that many members of their new community are inhospitable to them. They also learn how other marginalized communities are viewed by their cultural majorities. As these newcomers are thrust into an environment of displacement, assimilation and surveillance, they find strength in their differences and insist on being seen authentically by their new society. This piece is inspired by stories of immigrants to the United States and Europe, as well as by our own personal stories of being "othered" because of who we are. In a time when certain political leaders seek to divide people from each other based on their differences, we invite people to have a shared experience of empathy through the transformative power of dance.
This dance will examine questions of community like: What aspects of a person's community are lost when they migrate to a new land and which ones are held on to? How do newcomers negotiate the desire to self realize with how they are seen by their new neighbors?
As a response to various levels of xenophobia that have risen in the United States and Germany following political changes, and an influx of refugees and other immigrants in those two countries, Kindler-Abali and Rubel have decided to combine their choreographic practices into a new work that opposes the legitimizing of intolerance, and calls for a critical examination of the word "alien" as it applies to a human being.
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Alien is an international collaboration between choreographers Tim Rubel of Tim Rubel Human Shakes (San Francisco) and Elisabeth Kindler-Abali of animi motus e.v. (Berlin), and will feature the TRHS dancers.
Alien will investigate what it means to be an outsider, a visitor, a newcomer to an environment that fears and questions your presence. The piece depicts members of a fictional human race who have come to a new land seeking refuge from their homeland which is in turmoil. Upon their arrival, they discover that many members of their new community are inhospitable to them. They also learn how other marginalized communities are viewed by their cultural majorities. As these newcomers are thrust into an environment of displacement, assimilation and surveillance, they find strength in their differences and insist on being seen authentically by their new society. This piece is inspired by stories of immigrants to the United States and Europe, as well as by our own personal stories of being "othered" because of who we are. In a time when certain political leaders seek to divide people from each other based on their differences, we invite people to have a shared experience of empathy through the transformative power of dance.
This dance will examine questions of community like: What aspects of a person's community are lost when they migrate to a new land and which ones are held on to? How do newcomers negotiate the desire to self realize with how they are seen by their new neighbors?
As a response to various levels of xenophobia that have risen in the United States and Germany following political changes, and an influx of refugees and other immigrants in those two countries, Kindler-Abali and Rubel have decided to combine their choreographic practices into a new work that opposes the legitimizing of intolerance, and calls for a critical examination of the word "alien" as it applies to a human being.
Thur-Sat, June 14-16, 8-9pm, all days
Alien is an international collaboration between choreographers Tim Rubel of Tim Rubel Human Shakes (San Francisco) and Elisabeth Kindler-Abali of animi motus e.v. (Berlin), and will feature the TRHS dancers.
Alien will investigate what it means to be an outsider, a visitor, a newcomer to an environment that fears and questions your presence. The piece depicts members of a fictional human race who have come to a new land seeking refuge from their homeland which is in turmoil. Upon their arrival, they discover that many members of their new community are inhospitable to them. They also learn how other marginalized communities are viewed by their cultural majorities. As these newcomers are thrust into an environment of displacement, assimilation and surveillance, they find strength in their differences and insist on being seen authentically by their new society. This piece is inspired by stories of immigrants to the United States and Europe, as well as by our own personal stories of being "othered" because of who we are. In a time when certain political leaders seek to divide people from each other based on their differences, we invite people to have a shared experience of empathy through the transformative power of dance.
This dance will examine questions of community like: What aspects of a person's community are lost when they migrate to a new land and which ones are held on to? How do newcomers negotiate the desire to self realize with how they are seen by their new neighbors?
As a response to various levels of xenophobia that have risen in the United States and Germany following political changes, and an influx of refugees and other immigrants in those two countries, Kindler-Abali and Rubel have decided to combine their choreographic practices into a new work that opposes the legitimizing of intolerance, and calls for a critical examination of the word "alien" as it applies to a human being.
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Alien is an international collaboration between choreographers Tim Rubel of Tim Rubel Human Shakes (San Francisco) and Elisabeth Kindler-Abali of animi motus e.v. (Berlin), and will feature the TRHS dancers.
Alien will investigate what it means to be an outsider, a visitor, a newcomer to an environment that fears and questions your presence. The piece depicts members of a fictional human race who have come to a new land seeking refuge from their homeland which is in turmoil. Upon their arrival, they discover that many members of their new community are inhospitable to them. They also learn how other marginalized communities are viewed by their cultural majorities. As these newcomers are thrust into an environment of displacement, assimilation and surveillance, they find strength in their differences and insist on being seen authentically by their new society. This piece is inspired by stories of immigrants to the United States and Europe, as well as by our own personal stories of being "othered" because of who we are. In a time when certain political leaders seek to divide people from each other based on their differences, we invite people to have a shared experience of empathy through the transformative power of dance.
This dance will examine questions of community like: What aspects of a person's community are lost when they migrate to a new land and which ones are held on to? How do newcomers negotiate the desire to self realize with how they are seen by their new neighbors?
As a response to various levels of xenophobia that have risen in the United States and Germany following political changes, and an influx of refugees and other immigrants in those two countries, Kindler-Abali and Rubel have decided to combine their choreographic practices into a new work that opposes the legitimizing of intolerance, and calls for a critical examination of the word "alien" as it applies to a human being.
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